Serena fined $10,000 for breaking racket

Serena Williams and Viktor Troicki were fined $10,000 apiece Saturday at Wimbledon for unsportsmanlike conduct.

The biggest amount deducted from a player’s paycheck at this year’s tournament so far was the $12,000 for Britain’s Heather Watson, for jamming her racket into the grass.

The No. 1-seeded Williams’ fine was from her second-round victory over Christina McHale at Centre Court on Friday. She smashed her racket repeatedly against the turf while sitting in her sideline chair after dropping the first set, then flung the piece of equipment so far behind her that it landed in the lap of a TV cameraman.

Afterward, Williams said she knew she would lose some money and joked about having not yet met her quota for harming rackets this season.

“I’ve cracked a number of rackets throughout my career. I’ve gotten fined a number of times for cracking rackets. In fact, I look at it like I didn’t crack one at the French Open or Rome, so I was doing really good,” Williams said. “I don’t want to go too long without cracking a racket. You know, I’m on track. I try to crack a certain amount a year. I’m a little behind this year, so it was good.”

Troicki, a Serb seeded 25th, was punished for his tirade against chair umpire Damiano Torella at the end of a five-set loss to Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the second round Thursday.

“Worst umpire ever in the world! What are you doing? Did you see the ball?” Troicki screamed, also telling Torella: “You’re horrible!”